Eduardo Arzt


Eduardo Arzt is an Argentine Molecular Biologist, Master in Experimental Biology, Doctor from the Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry. Currently, he is a Senior Researcher at CONICET, Distinguished Professor of the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires, External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society and Director of the Biomedicine Research Institute of Buenos Aires - CONICET - Partner Institute of the Max Planck Society.

Contribution and recognition

His scientific contributions stand him out as an internationally recognized personality in the field of Molecular Neuroendocrinology. His laboratory contributed to the discovery of new genes and pathways involved in the physiological adaptation to homeostasis in response to stress, hypoxia, physiopathological processes, and to the discovery of new targets for pharmacological treatments.
He is known not only for his findings, which are an example of research in biomedicine, transferring results from basic molecular biology to pharmacological applications, but also for his vast institutional achievements for Argentine and Latin-American science, including an active and important role in the development and realization of the project of the Polo Científico Tecnológico and the creation of the Biomedicine Research Institute of Buenos Aires - CONICET - Partner Institute of the Max Planck Society. He has received, for its ongoing work, both prestigious Argentine and International awards and distinctions.

Bibliographic review / career

In 1970 he graduated from the Colegio Nacional Buenos Aires, Argentina.
In 1971 he joined the Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry of the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and graduated in 1978.
In 1981 he began a Masters in Experimental Biology at the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico, and his Master's Thesis was on transportation models in biological membranes.
From 1985 to 1988 at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, he conducted his Ph.D. in cellular mechanisms involved in immune-neuroendocrine pathways, at the Institute for Medical Research A. Lanari, of the Faculty of Medicine.
In 1989 he joined the Scientific Researcher Career of CONICET, Argentina, where he is now a Senior Researcher.
In 1995 he obtained the position of Professor in Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences.
In 1997 he participated as co-Founder and Director of the Laboratorio de Fisiología y Biología Molecular .
In 2005 he was appointed External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society.
In 2007 he participated in the agreement for the establishment of the Biomedicine Research Institute of Buenos Aires - CONICET - Partner Institute of the Max Planck Society, whose construction was completed in 2012 at the Polo Científico y Tecnológico.

Awards and distinctions